| "Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise." »Charles Horton Cooley |
| "Real life is, to most men, a long second-best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible but the world of pure reason knows no compromise, no practical limitations, no barrier to the creative activity." »Bertrand Russell |
| "From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles." »Charles Sumner |
| "Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got." »Janis Joplin |
| "To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be." »Golda Meir |
| "It's too much to ask one to love his enemy. Let's compromise on forgetting him." »William C. Hunter |
| "If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise." »Robert Fritz |
| "compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another -- too often ending in the loss of both." »Tryon Edwards |
| "A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece." »Ludwig Erhard |
| "All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter." »Edmund Burke |
| "Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough." »Abraham Lincoln |
| "The New Testament makes it abundantly clear that whenever the Kingdom of God was concerned Jesus was absolutely uncompromising, even when he realized that for him personally the alternative to compromise was crucifixion." »Ernest Fremont Title |
| "The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles." »Ayn Rand |
| "Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes." »Zelda |
| "All legislation, all government, all society is founded upon the principle of mutual concession, politeness, comity, courtesy upon these everything is based...Let him who elevates himself above humanity, above its weaknesses, its infirmities, its wants, its necessities, say, if he pleases, I will never compromise but let no one who is not above the frailties of our common nature disdain compromises." »Henry Clay |
| "The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems before they arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise. We must be willing to make an intelligent compromise with perfection lest we wait forever before taking action. It's still good advice to cross bridges as we come to them." »David Joseph Schwartz |
| "Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles - Calvin" »Bill Watterson |
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